The graph illustrates the proportion of children playing four individual instruments (violin, guitar, piano and drums) in 2005, 2010 and 2015.
Overall, the guitar is the most popular instrument each year and the piano is the second most popular. The popularity of the guitar and the piano also dramatically increases with time while the popularity of the drums and the violin stays quite the same and at much lower level.
In 2005 just above 10% of students play the guitar and 10% play the piano. The guitar has almost doubled it’s popularity (20%) in 2010 and reaches it’s peak (27%) in 2015. There is similar kind of increase in the popularity of the piano reaching about 16% in 2010 and 25% in 2015.
The drums is the least popular instrument in 2005 and 2010 with only 6% of students playing it whereas about 8 % of students play the violin aforementioned years. In 2015 the drums reach 8% and become more popular than the violin which drops to 7%.
